Mark Rist is an Architect and educator, dedicated to invigorating our built and natural environments. He cofounded Studio naama, whose work on collective housing has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale and is featured in the Architecture Foundation’s publication New Architects 4. Mark's expertise in Japanese architecture has established a strong focus in the cross-over of programmes, to create versatile and adaptive buildings, spanning not only high density housing, but spatial planning and furniture.

Mark is an RIBA award winner and a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow. He has taught Architecture for over a decade in the UK and abroad, allowing him to develop and test ideas, methodologies and theoretical subject matters. Together with Natalie Savva, they currently lead a design unit at Oxford Brookes University centred on housing, sustainable construction methods and building communities, intrinsically linked to landscape.